I've never really watched south park before. Simpsons has a pretty well-established golden era; what's the equivalent for south park?
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>>215642817I was thinking it dropped off after seasons... *snicker* six or seven.
>>215642766Imaginationland is peak SP. Seeing as comedy was more reference than wit at the time, they made a story that was reference bedrock. But the show doesn't become absolute shit until 10 years later.
>>215642766Well, tons say it ended either with Chef's death, You're Getting Old or PC Principal
>>215642998Not even close. The Meteor Shower trilogy is the best animated comedy has ever been.
Seasons 1-5: Pre-golden age. Mostly good episodes but several forgettable ones.Seasons 6-11: Golden age. Almost every episode is great.Seasons 12-16: Post-golden age. Mostly good episodes but the quality of humor is clearly declining.Season 17-23: Zombie era. Matt and Trey have mostly run out of ideas for the most part.Seasons 24-Present: Misery era. Matt and Trey openly hate their fans by constantly deconstructing what made South Park great and are creatively bankrupt.
Watch every episode up until "You're Getting Old"That was the natural conclusion of the show
>>215642998This. The last totally great season was 11. I feel like that's when they just slowly started running out of ideas even if they still had the magic
>>215643179This era being the misery era is pretty telling
>>215642766Is that the principal from Robot Jones?
>>215643277Post-COVID is when I finally realized that Matt and Trey hate everything and everyone and are just clearly rubbing it in the fans' faces. I'm actually amused they showed their self-awareness for the first time last night, but it doesn't change that they've completely ruined something great and are seemingly OK with it.
>mid shows teenage american suburban kids based their entire personality on
>>215643357What shows do the interesting and soulful kids watch
>>215643347I would feel the same way if I had to make the same show for 30 years
>>215643370steven universeharley quinn
>>215643179There's a period after season 2 that is my favourite. I think it's 4-7 or so, where it's mostly small scale stories involving the main 4. To me, that's the essence of South Park.
>>215643357>Bojack HorsemanDoes anyone outside depressed Redditors like it?
>>215643347Nah, there's a clip of Randy saying South Park sucks and asking if he wants to bail. He also says fuck South Park during his Tegridy phase
Which season and episode was the one where Cartman has sea people and it turns into a joke about Simpsons already having done everything?
>>215643462Well yeah that was just making Randy unlikable. They didn't make almost the entire cast outside Butters unlikable until post-COVID and the way they treated him in that sort of says it all.
>>2156435086. The first season where I don't think I disliked any episode.
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>>2156434114 has Pip which is probably the worst episode made before 2020. 5 has Terrance and Phillip: Behind the Blow and that episode is objectively bad.
>>215643511How was the cast unlikable in post-COVID? Outside Randy, that's obvious
>>215642766seasons 1-3. the humour is irrelevant and the animation amateurish, which is really charming
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>>215643649Stan teeters on the verges of being a mirror image of his out of touch father or a total downer that's just depressing to see. Kyle is overtly preachy and clearly reflects Matt Stone's transformation as one of the most unlikable people on Earth. They've either written Kenny off entirely or have him do nothing. That's just 3 of the main boys.
Craaab people craaab people
>>215643684Stan has some self-awareness that keeps me liking him, Kyle is kinda funny with his moralizing and Kenny was still relevant in a "Haunting the Narrative" sort of way. His death was the catalyst for the plot, after all
>>215643684and cartman is an unfunny caricature of himself and just isn't funny in his mah genius villainy
>>215643357You can alwys tell when something was created by a jealous non or self-flagellating shabbos goy, like this image.
>>215642998>Imaginationland is peak SP.Zoomer take. This is literally when it started to go to shit. Every comedy cartoon is ruined when they move from lots of short random jokes to "muh plot". The multi episode arcs were unfunny and just stretched one joke way too long. Even Matt and Trey admitted they changed the format because it was too hard to come up with multiple funny ideas for every episode.
What happens after 11 that makes it the cutoff point?
>>215644345Britney's New Look, Eek a Penis, and About Last Night are some of the more cringeworthy episodes. Most of them are just running the same joke into the ground the whole time to the point that it becomes stale not even a half an hour in. The rest of Season 12 is fine otherwise.
>>215642817This. I loved 1 and 2 back in the day, but I was also a child, and "edgy for the sake of edgy" was still a novel concept back then.
>>215643938sybau ESL
>>215644486For a long time, I had myself convinced that the episode where they're on the run with a headless Britney Spears was some vaguely remembered dream that I had, and the one where they try to communicate with the "Oh Long Johnson" cat.
>>215643357This is me except no bojack and for rick and morty season 1 only
>>215642766I would say the first eight seasons
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>>215642766>Seasons 1-3Severely underrated. Matt and Trey rate them low for obvious reasons, but they have consistently hilarious episodes, and those seasons put the show on the map for a reason. Moreover, they capture the heart and soul of South Park better than any other. There is maybe only one bad episode across all three seasons.>Seasons 4-7Did everything well that seasons 1-3 did, but scaled things up. I think this is where Cartman kept hatching schemes to make $10 million. This was also the beginning of their experimentation with serialization (I think it kind of started in season 3, but they did practically nothing with it then), and it worked very well. If any era is deserving of the title of "golden era", it's this one.>Seasons 8 and 9Beginning of the drop in quality. Show was still excellent, but there's just no way they could have kept up what they had previously.>Seasons 10-12With Chef gone, the show lost itself. There were still a lot of good episodes, but they were coupled with mediocre episodes. Imaginationland stands out, since it was supposed to be a movie, so they put in a lot more effort.>Season 13Uniquely outstanding season in the middle of mediocrity. Has some of the best episodes in the series.>Seasons 14-17Further downfall. They got too caught up in themselves, episodes became more about social/political commentary instead of being funny. They also brought the boys out of focus more and more, which is why the trilogies stand out so well.>Season 18They brought their experiment with serialization to the next level with this season, and it worked brilliantly. Similarly with season 13, this season stands out as one of the better seasons amidst utter mediocrity. It's the last good season.
>>215643179>Matt and Trey openly hate their fans by constantly deconstructing what made South Park greatWhy is this so common? Joker and The Matrix also went through this
>>215646293>Seasons 19 and 20The lowest period of South Park. They tried to lean even more into serialization than in season 18, and it failed abysmally. They fell into the trap of centering episodes around cliffhangers which went nowhere. This is also where South Park ceased to be a comedy altogether, and became entirely a political drama. Season 19 also introduced one of the worst characters in the show. The ninja episode was the only good one from the entire two seasons.>Seasons 21-22An improvement from the previous two seasons, but that's not saying much. They did away with the serialization nonsense, but by this point, the show has no resemblance to what made it good.>Season 23I actually thought the tegridy farms thing was pretty funny. It represented the show ceasing to take itself so seriously as it had been in the previous years. It was also clear that they ere running out of ideas, so they tried to switch things up. It's by no means a good season, but it's not as bad as people make it out to be.>SpecialsThey were all pretty decent, of roughly the same quality as the 11-17 eras. Their bigger scale and higher effort makes them seem a little better as well.>Season 24+No clue, haven't watched the show besides specials since 23.
>>215646293>Imaginationland stands outimaginationland is what finally made me drop the show. I hated that shit.
>>215642766Now. This season is the funniest it has been.
>>215646450Eh, I liked it. It's always fun to have the kids go on some nonsensical adventure, and I think I enjoy any episode centered around Butters.
South Park sucks now.
1-10 imohonestly I'd say up until 15-16 are pretty good>>215646374it's been 20 years few people remain the same after so long. successful creative types also tend to spiral up their own asshole and lose sight of any real objectivity. see matt and trey hating the first couple of seasons which made the show explode into what it is in the first place. lucas tinkering with the OT films in remasters. fat fuck martin losing the plot so hard he'll never finish his books, etc.
>>215643411This is the right answer. The show kept being great after S7 but it starts getting a bit repetitive and predictable. I still like the first 3 seasons but the movie puts the series in another level.
>>215646905That episode is peak South Park, why do people hate it?
>>215646394PC Principal sucks ass and so does Tegridy. Also, you're best skipping S25, it's a mediocre season
>>215646374as some people grow older they start believing everyone is against them and begin lashing out at the worldit's more obvious when they have a big platform like a tv show to scream at clouds with
>>215642998imaginationland isn't that funny and it goes on for 3 episodes
>>215645110It wasn't edgy for the sake of edgy. It was actually humorous and creative, and the direction of an episode was always based on an extremely simple premise getting wildly out of control. You same faggots will praise Regular Show endlessly for the exact same trope.
>>215642817>3-92-6
1-10
>>215645145>one typo>ESL>unironically speaks in ebonicsLooks like you are the ESL here, not being able to understand what makes a text ESL in the first place. Kill yourself, brownoid.
>>215642766Its all consistently excellent until they introduce tegridy farms.
>>215652528wtf is a "jealous non"
>>215652128seconded
>>215651115>as some people grow older they start believing everyone is against themgen z believes everyone is against them
>>215643684did they read this comment to make the latest episode?
>>215642766Pre-Tegridy
>>215652633Well, both that and Post-Covid were doomerism imcarnate, so...
They got him.
>>215653235Kyle Schwartz didn't kill himself.
>>2156427665-9 I can't think of anything essential in the first 4, maybe watch season 4 just to get a feel for the characters
>>215643357Where is futurama you doublenigger
>>215642766There isn't. Some fans believe only season 1-4 are worth watching, some believe in the season ''5-10'' being the golden age of the show. A lot of fans also like season 11-19 as well, in fact most fans enjoy most of the series. My opinion season 3-16 are mostly kino, everything afterwards can be skipped
>>215642766The only objective answer is whenever you personally were 13-15 years old, after that the shows stops being funny.
